End of WWII

End of WWII

Sep 2, 1945

Deadliest War, mostly between America & Germany.

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

Ended federal tolerance of racial segregation.

Rosa Parks Incident

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, this began the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

Ended on December 20, 1956. African Americans refused to ride Montgomery to protest against segregation on buses.

Little Rock Nine Incident

Sep 4, 1957

President Eisenhower had federal troops escrt nine African Americans (The Little Rock Nine) into school & they ahd their first full day at school.

Sputnik launched

Oct 4, 1957

Soviet Union created the "Space Age" by launching the worlds first artificial satellite.

Bay pf Pigs Invasion

Jan 1, 1959

Young Cuban drove his army into Havana & overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, the nations American-backed president.

U-2 Incident

May 1, 1960

Union of Soviet Socialists shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 15, 1962

Ended on October 28 1962. U.S found U-2 spy plane data that the Soviet Union was building missile sites in Cuba.

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

More than 200,00 Americans gathered in Washington D.C. for a politically rally.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Apr 16, 1967

Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in jail, most famous letter ever written talking about freedom, segregation, rights, etc.